Full article at: http://headlines.igc.apc.org:8080/wnheadlines/975362174/index_html TURKEY: Torturers of Fatma Tokmak Still Free Originally posted in IGC Member Conference: Topic 2382 Turkey: Torturers of Fatma Tokmak a owner-amnesty-l ai.news 2:49 AM Nov 25, 2000 (at host.oil.ca) * News Release Issued by the International Secretariat of Amnesty International * 25 November 2000 EUR 44/063/2000 225/00 "The torturers of Fatma Tokmak and her two-year-old son Azat are still free, despite the sufferings they caused," Amnesty International said on the occasion of the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. On 9 December 1996 Fatma Tokmak, a Kurdish woman who does not speak Turkish, was detained on suspicion that she and her husband were affiliated with Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). She was held in police custody with her son at the Anti-Terror Department of the police headquarters in Istanbul until 20 December. Fatma Tokmak and her son were allegedly subjected to torture at the hands of police officers in Istanbul in December 1996. To this day no one has been prosecuted and all possible moves to bring the perpetrators to justice have been exhausted. -- Mine Aysen Doyran PhD Student Department of Political Science SUNY at Albany Nelson A. Rockefeller College 135 Western Ave.; Milne 102 Albany, NY 12222 _______________________________________________ Why pay for something you could get for free? NetZero provides FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html _______________________________________________ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
